Sapphic Art - Sappho's repudiated love

Hans-Jürgen Döpp

Parkstone Press

2003

96 páginas

3h 12m

ISBN-10: 185995880X

There was in Ancient Greece a particular island, in shape of a triangle, just like the female mane, which symbolized the most contradictory fantasies: the "island of Lesbos." For some, this is the sanctuary of female homosexuality, for others, it is the first expression of freedom by Aeolian women. In the first case, it is often men who try to reject and condemn the notion of pleasure between two women. In the second case, often women, they demand the right to equality. The poetess Sappho did not in anyway facilitate the relationship between men and women, with her admirable Ode to Aphrodite which celebrates the love and sexuality between to women. With the liberalization of morals, female homosexuality is part of modern society's and cannot be ignored. But what does history retain from these practices? How is the love between women appreciated? By infringing on the rules of past societies, how did these women live their particularity and their forbidden sexuality? This difficult exercise, undertaken by Professor Döpp, attempts to explain these censured pleasures, without inclining towards a certain voyeurism.

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Lesbianismo através dos tempos

O livro traz um panorama da homossexualidade feminina, de Lesbos aos dias de hoje. Representações artísticas do sexo entre mulheres ilustram o livro, que se torna mais interessante. O texto é muito bem escrito e analisa principalmente o raciocínio falocêntrico que dominou por muito tempo as análises feitas sobre a homossexualidade feminina. O autor, um homem, explicita o processo através do qual a forma de enxergar o lesbianismo vem mudando através dos tempos. É um bom livro, mas é curto e poderia ser mais aprofundado. Mesmo assim, texto e arte de qualidade.